Guitar



(No Model.)

J. KLUEBE R.

GUITAR. N0. 337,83'7. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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JOHN KLUEBER, OF SANDUSKY, OHIO.

GUITAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,337, dated March 2,1886.

Application filed September I, 1885. Serial No. 176,431. (No modeLl Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN KLUEBER, a citi zen of the United States,residing at Sandusky, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Guitars, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates especially to the construction of the bridge andstring-holder of guitars; and it consists of a guitar having a combinedbridge, stringholder, and hand-rest, constructed and applied ashereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a plan view. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a portionof the instrument, showing also a portion of the sounding-board brokenaway. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the part constitntingthe combinedbridge, stringholder, and hand-rest. Fig. 4 is a side view thereof.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates a blade, of wood or other suitable material,havirg crosspiec es B O at its opposite ends, whereby it rests on thetop or sounding board, D, of a guitar, both cross-pieces being on oneand the same side of the blade. Through the blade and the crosspiece B,which is at the lower end of the blade, are driven screws E, or othersimilar fastenings, which enter a block, F, of wood or other suitablematerial, on the interior of the guitar, and thus unite the blade to theinstrument. The block F is glued or otherwise held to the rim G of theguitar, at the center and lower end of thelatter, which thus is thepoint at which the blade is fastened, and the blade thence extendsupward in the center line of the instrument to the point at which thebridge is generally located, so that the cross-piece O, which is at theupper end of the blade, takes the place of the bridge. Said crosspiece0, however, is left detached from the soundingboard D, it merely restingthereon, and hence the vibrations of the sounding-board are notinserting a knot formed on the end of each thereby interrupted to anymaterial extent, if at all.

In the blade A are holes I, which are adjacent and parallel to thecross-piece O, and equal in number to the strings of the guitar, theybeing intended to receive the strings.Theseh'olesIaresubstantiallypear-shaped,like the holes in the tail-pieceof a violin, and the guitar-strings are fastened therein in a similarmanner to the violin-stringsnamely, by

string into the large portion of the proper hole and then drawing thestring into the small end of the hole. At a point above the cross-pieceO, and in line therewith, the blade is provided with the ridge 8, commonto the ordinary bridge, for raising the strings. It will be noticed thatby the crosspieces B O the blade A is raised from the sonndingboard, sothat the palm of the hand may be placed on the blade in playing withoutaffecting the sounding-board, and hence said blade forms a hand-rest, aswell as a bridge and a stringholder, while by its peculiar arrangementon the instrument a full sound and strength of tone is obtained.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A guitar having an interior block, F, attached to the inner side of theguitar-rim, at the center and lower end of the instrument, said guitarbeing provided with a combined bridge, string-holder, and hand-rest, A,hav ing holes I I, ridge 8, and cross-pieces B O, and secured by screwsE E, passed through one of said cross-pieces and into the interiorblock, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN KLUEBER. [L. s]

Witn ess es:

EDWARD FALK, LOUISA FALK.

